The rally moves to Sydney now after an Indian victory in the capital city Canberra. The momentum has completely shifted in the Indian camp, in the last two matches. Now suddenly Indian team is looking favourites to win the T20 series, especially after the absence of Warner at the top for Australia. The star of the previous match Jadeja is ruled out of the remaining T20 matches due to hamstring issues. Shardul is called in as his replacement. Indian team would however bring an unchanged xi tomorrow except Chahal in place of Jadeja as the team looks settled and there is no reason to tinker with anything. Samson and Pandey will get another opportunity to prove themselves in the middle order especially Pandey who has taken the slot of Iyer. Only concern is that after the exit of Jadeja, the batting looks a little weak and fragile and there would be no cushion in the lower order except Pandya, so whole pressure will be on the Indian top order batsmen to make runs and register a big total on board because Australia will not have a bad day in every match like the first T20. The bowling department looks good and all the bowlers bowled amazingly and fought with a low total on board. Natarajan, Chahal and Deepak Chahar were amongst the wicket takers while Sundar was very miser in giving runs. Only weak link was Shami who went for lot of runs and went wicketless. He may be out of the match tomorrow and could be replaced by Bumrah as the 3 day warm up match begins tomorrow and Shami may participate in that. Coming to Australia, the team they chose in the first match was justified, the bowling impressed a lot especially Henriques who took 3 wickets in the match. The only disappointment was their batting, the openers Finch and Short gave a good start in the match but their middle order batsmen were unable to capitalize that and lost their wickets by playing loose shots. I think it was just a bad day for Aussies and they are a lot better team than what they displayed in the first T20. SCG is a happy hunting ground for Australia and equally inauspicious for India till now. But Kohli and co. have a chance to seal the series and improve their record at Sydney tomorrow. Let us have a look at T20I statistics of SCG.
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